Tully

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See how the mother half lives.

Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging nanny named Tully.

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tully screenings are now clinically depressive gays only events. catch us in the theater dissociating whenever we relate too hard to marlo then taking a group depression nap at my place after the movie

tully is infectiously sweet, dreamy, otherworldly. watching this with my mom made it all the better, crying into each others arms watching a world we both knew and dreamt of. life and motherhood are intertwined with love and dreams. tully is magic.

A very different kind of adult fairy tale (one that frequently doubles as a feature-length advertisement for tubal ligation), “Tully” is a fantasy of the highest order; it might look like an episode of “This Is Us,” but this story is every bit as magical as “The Shape of Water.” Think of it as Diablo Cody’s modern take on “Mary Poppins”: What it lacks in songs, it more than makes up for in sex scenes and Carly Rae Jepsen sing-alongs. Funnier than “Juno” and almost as ruthlessly honest as “Young Adult,” Cody’s third collaboration with director Jason Reitman is a razor-sharp movie about the trials of motherhood, and the clear and present danger of losing yourself once you start living for someone else.

“Tully” comes off as a combination of screenwriter Diablo Cody’s past works, “Juno” (2007) and “Young Adult” (2011), but with a magical realist twist. The shaky camera style and subdued performance by Charlize Theron make the story feel more intimate, more tangible, as Cody and director Jason Reitman themselves have grown from quippy 20-somethings to bona fide 40-year-olds.

But maturity doesn’t necessarily equate to wisdom. The film follows Marlo (Charlize Theron), an overworked, pregnant mother of two — and soon to be three — as she struggles with the harsh realities of parenting. After her new baby is born, Marlo slips into postpartum depression, which worries her brother Craig (Mark Duplass). Enter Tully (Mackenzie…

The latest collaboration between Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody is a raw and unflinching look at motherhood, free from the typical romanticism Hollywood often depicts to smooth things over, and make the film appeal to a wider audience. It's also a powerful showcase for Charlize Theron, whose tremendous performance is more than just the often reported physical change, fully embodying the role of our protagonist, looking as though she prepared by not sleeping for a month. It's just a shame the film loses its way as it goes on, especially in the final act, building towards something which feels thrown into the narrative just to get people talking, rather than because it fits the overall film. A shame, as the picture was looking to be pretty promising from early on.

This manages to strike the absolute perfect balance between comedy and drama. This story could easily have relied too heavily on the conventions of either genre, but instead it manages to find the humour in the, at times, rather bleak situation, and as a result comes together as an emotionally rich whole. Charlize Theron totally kills it as a struggling, frustrated mother, as does Mackenzie Davis as her manic pixie dream nanny. The ending will certainly divide people, but I personally thought it tied things up beautifully and transformed the film into something significantly more profound.

So massively underrated, this deserved to be seen by sooo many more people. This did not go where I was expecting it to at all but that one revelation surprised the hell out of me. It has some sweet direction, a sharp, witty script, some well developed, raw humor and two fantastic performances from Charlize Theron and Mackenize Davis. They are so good together and the subject matter and script treat the relationship they have between each other correctly. It's the most honest portrayal of modern parenthood I have seen in a film in a very long time. Please seek this one out because I am tired of it being paid dust.